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...handlers take away the teleprompter, and allow him to interact with the crowd, McCain becomes a candidate transformed. He begins to have fun, spinning stories like an old sailor on a bar stool, and speaking with clarity about the issues that motivate him most. Though many of his words are memorized, repeated verbatim at each stop, they still manage to come across as conversational. Despite a bad knee, he will almost trot across a hall to hand a voter the microphone, and always give even the most combative questioners a chance to ask a follow-up question...
...governments have until the end of the year to complete their ratification processes, and Brady said a number of ideas would be floated, but all were hazardous. "One of them could be to try a 26-to-1 situation, where legalese could allow Ireland to continue with the machinery of the old E.U. treaties," he said...
...these investors excited is that the rules of the auto industry are changing. Radical new car designs using lightweight materials and utilizing new-style power plants are becoming more affordable. Technology--computer-controlled battery packs, with power-storage systems that use nanotechnology--may soon become cheap enough to allow upstarts to compete with the Big Three...
Obama is enlisting his millions of supporters to help him hunt down and quash these stories, just as those supporters helped him turn his insurgent campaign into a history-making juggernaut. Says Obama adviser Anita Dunn: "We will not allow Michelle - or, for that matter, Barack - to be defined by rumors...
...more stressed from the lack of water, the black will spread. Safflowers, which should be a brilliant gold this time of year, are limp and brown. Farmers pace the dusty fields, eyeing their almond trees and grape vines, both heavy with unripe fruit, trying to decide which ones to allow to die. "It's like which kid to keep and which to get rid of," Coburn says...